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R has its own top level project in openSUSE's build service
devel:languages:R.

R is included in the latest releases of openSUSE since 11.3, so
it may be installed without adding any repositories directly from
yast. Obviously you only get the version of R that was current,
when a openSUSE release got frozen. I.e. 13.1 contains R-3.0.1
but we already have R-3.1.0 out by now. Read on to find out how
to stay current with R!

Below devel.languages:R you find a few subprojects:

R-released (built on release date, replaces the old R-base)
This contains R itself and a lot of CRAN packages, emacs-ess,
rkward, rstudio, littler. It is intended to be a
one-stop-for-all repository.

R-base (deprecated, will be deleted soon)

R-patched (daily, recommended) and

R-devel (daily)

for at least all actively maintained releases of openSUSE available.
For the time being these are 12.3, and 13.1. For your convenience
older releases are supported as long as no work is required to
keep R compiling for those unmaintained releases of openSUSE.

Furthermore the adventurous can download packages for Factory and
Tumbleweed. On the other end even SLE 10, 11, 11SP1 and 11SP2 are supported.

All these packages provide a resource 'R-base' for installation.

In subproject R-released you'll find the latest released version of
R. This is the version, which goes into the next openSUSE
release. This project gets updates if and when R itself is
officially released.

R-patched is updated daily with the latest patches from upstream.
Same version number as R-base, but patches.

R-devel is updated daily and contains today's devel version of R.

Naturally R-patched now is the recommended version to run.
If you compile packages for yourself you must install R-patched-devel, too.
For discontinued releases, at the moment 10.1-12.3, R-base gets build
as long as it "just works" with the current spec file. No effort is put in
keeping the latest R-base build on these ancient releases.

Installation

The generic method to install R on OpenSUSE Linux is using
the 1-click install facility the OpenSUSE Build Service (OBS) provides in
their search interface. As r-base-devel requires r-base it is
easiest to install r-base-devel. Most will need it anyway.

Nevertheless some seemed to have trouble using that interface, what
inspired creating a page collecting direct links to the packages
installation sources.

Installing R with 1-click-install

The links in the table below invoke yast2 directly to provide
access to OpenSUSE's 1-click-install. Architecture and dependencies are handled
automatically. You must be root to do this, resp. you will be asked
to give the superuser password during installation. If available
you'll receive current R-patched, otherwise R-base.

The devel package is needed, if you want to install add-on
packages. You'll probably
need to install a compiler, too. Some packages will need additional
dependencies. See install instructions for the package, if
an installation fails.